This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...should tax itself to such an amount as government might deem satisfactory. The object of this procedure Lord North himself stated, in the following words: --" If it does no good in the colonies, it will do good here; it will unite the people of England by holding out to them a distinct object of revenue." He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...should tax itself to such an amount as government might deem satisfactory. The object of this procedure Lord North himself stated, in the following words: --" If it does no good in the colonies, it will do good here; it will unite the people of England by holding out to them a distinct object of revenue." He added further, " As it tends to unite England it is likely to disunite America, for if only one province' accept the offer, their con Vol. I. N federacy, which alone makes them formidable, will be broken." The bill which was thus unblushingly advocated passed into a law, and was received throughout America with that mingled indignation and derision which it and its author so abundantly deserved..--a: -h Ih--. t--........,") 'I.n3, 0, .., .--..: v-, -, .i t, .n. I--"' '--'J-' Itjiif: .--' "'-J'; CHAPTER XII. Mr. Burke's celebrated Motion for Conciliation with America--Analysis of his Arguments--Defeat of the Measure--Effects of this Event in the Colonies--Violent Opposition to Government in Boston--General Gage seizes Stores of Powder, &c.--The Provincials make Reprisals--Attempt to seize the United Stores of the Insurgents at Concord. At the commencement of the year 1775, the affairs of the American colonies and the parent government were assuming daily a more gloomy and threatening aspect. It became increasingly evident that whatever could be done to avert the horrors of war should be attempted instantly, and, impressed with these sentiments, Mr. Burke, on the 22nd of March, brought forward his motion for conciliation with America, and supported it with, perhaps, the most extraordinary effort of his oratorical powers. The general tendency of this address may be learned from the language of Mr. Fox...
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